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I didn’t grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner ‘plan,’ it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

Drew Barrymore

I’ve approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dedication Focus Motherhood
My therapist says I still haven’t got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I’m going to explode. But I’m still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing – all those experiences led me to the paths that I’m on now.
DREW BARRYMORE

Anger Day Explode One Path
I understand there are inevitable things that we have to go through: heartbreak, family problems. I don’t feel like some Quixotic idiot who says, ‘We don’t have to feel pain.’ No! Let’s feel it, let’s make it work for ourselves. But I want us all to be able to get past it.
DREW BARRYMORE

Ourselves Pain Past Say Want
I’ve always said that one night, I’m going to find myself in some field somewhere, I’m standing on grass, and it’s raining, and I’m with the person I love, and I know I’m at the very point I’ve been dreaming of getting to.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dream Love Night Perrson Rain
But in some ways, I’m like an old woman – lived it, seen it, done it, been there, have the T-shirt.
DREW BARRYMORE

Done T-shirt Way Woman
I’m just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.
DREW BARRYMORE

Different Function Relationship
I really wanted a wonderful, traditional home for my kid.
DREW BARRYMORE

Home Kids Wonderful
I’ve always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it’s never too late to transform ourselves.
DREW BARRYMORE

Ourselves Butterfly Self Love
People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.
DREW BARRYMORE

Beautiful Butterfly People
I try to make movies that I would want to go see rather than ones I would just want to do as an actor. I want people to have movies full of romance and hope and empowerment, something they can escape into and feel good about. I love happy endings.
DREW BARRYMORE

Feel Good People Romance
I like women who like each other and empower each other.
DREW BARRYMORE

Each Other Empowering Women
I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it’s important to seek out that reason – that’s how we learn.
DREW BARRYMORE

Believe Everything Happens Reason Thinking
I believe you can be the person that you dream of being.
DREW BARRYMORE

Believe Dream Person
I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don’t need to see everything perfectly. I don’t like it.
DREW BARRYMORE

Impressionistic Need Tainted
I still can’t spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.
DREW BARRYMORE

Dollars Stills Two
I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.
DREW BARRYMORE

Imperfection Mind People

I didn’t grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner ‘plan,’ it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

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I didn’t grow up in a traditional family, and I never had a family dinner around the table, so whenever I actually had a dinner ‘plan,’ it meant a lot to me; it made me feel excited and safe.

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